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

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

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

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.