“Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yet certainly again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush.”

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

“But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”