“Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello.”

“Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.”

“Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.”

“If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears.”

“One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well.”

“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise…”