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

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

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

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

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

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.