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.

The first mark of valor is defence.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.