Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.
Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.