Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
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