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

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.

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

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

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

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