Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.