Philip Massinger

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.

True dignity is never gained by place and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

A diamond though set in horns is still a diamond and sparkles in purest gold.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.