Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

They love indeed who quake to say they love.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.