What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

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

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.