It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.
The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.