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

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

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

My thoughts, imprisoned in my secret woes, with flamy breaths do issue oft in sound.