There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.
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.