It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

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

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.