Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
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
High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.