Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

Friendship is made fast by interwoven benefits.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.