"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, …"

"To measure things by things, and not by names."

"For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?"

"Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war."

"Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!"