Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason..

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded..

Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst ….

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve..

Vice is but a nurse of agonies..

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum..

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince..

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom..

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes..

Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot..

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle..

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

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth..

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest..

Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude..

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..

You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness..

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant pa….

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself..

Inquisitiveness is an uncomely guest..