In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

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

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest.

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.