The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

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

Great captains do never use long orations when it comes to the point of execution.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his