O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.