Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court