How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court