Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter ha….

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues..

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange..

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust..

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world ….

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding..

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown..

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place..

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death..

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear..

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it sho….

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature..

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away..

Valor is abased by too much loftiness..

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant..

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking..

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world..

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indiff….

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world..

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly..

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge..