It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

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.

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.