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• Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followe
  To some she gives honour without deserving, To other some, deserving without honour....
• I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- All Fools, Act i, Sc. 1...
• Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselve...
• Fair words never hurt the tongue. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act iv, Sc. 1
• Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair?
  Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are?...
• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act v, Sc. 1...
• She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act iii, Sc. 2...
• Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
  -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Monsieur D'Olive, Act i, Sc. 1...