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

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

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.