text: A valiant man
  Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger,
  But worthily, and by selected ways,
  He undertakes with reason, not by chance.
  His valor is the salt t' his other virtues,
  They're all unseason'd without it.
  - New Inn (act IV, sc. 3) [Valor]
  
  Of Pan we sing, the best of leaders Pan,
  That leads the Naiads and the Dryads forth;
  And to their dances more than Hermes can,
  Hear, O you groves, and hills resound his worth.
  - Pan's Anniversary Hymn (I) [Gods]
  
  It is not growing like a tree
  In bulk, doth make man better be;
  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
  To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
  A lily of a day
  Is fairer far in May,
  Although it falls and die that night--
  It was the plant and flower of Light.
  - Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
  [Growth : Trees]
  
  Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde,
  But boldly nominate a spade a spade.
  - Poetaster (act V, 3) [Names]
  
  'Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
  Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
  That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
  But the sinister application
  Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
  Interpreter; who will distort and strain
  The general scope and purpose of an author
  To his particular and private spleen.
  - Poetaster (act V, sc. 1) [Criticism]
  
  O what is it proud slime will not believe
  Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
  Thus with the gods?
  - Sejanus (act I) [Power]
  
  -----They write here one Cornelius--Son
  Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel
  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all
  The shipping there.
  --But how is't done?
  --I'll show you, sir.
  It is automa, runs under water
  With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail
  Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles
  Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.
  - Staple of News (act III, sc. 1)
  [Navigation]
  
  Care that is entered once into the breast
  Will have the whole possession ere it rest.
  - Tale of a Tub (act I, sc. 4) [Care]
  
  Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
  He'll bray you in a mortar.
  - The Alchemist (act II, sc. 1) [Argument]
  
  If he were
  To be made honest by an act of parliament
  I should not alter in my faith of him.
  - The Devil Is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
  [Faith]
  
  The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
  - The Devil is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
  [Devil]
  
  Drink to me only with thine eyes,
  And I will pledge with mine;
  Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
  And I'll not look for wine.
  - The Forest--Song to Celia
  [Kisses : Love : Toasts]
  
  Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
  Seem to fly, it will pursue:
  So court a mistress, she denies you;
  Let her alone, she will court you.
  Say are not women truly, then,
  Styled but the shadows of us men?
  - The Forest--Song--That Women are but Men's Shadows
  [Shadows : Wooing]
  
  The thirst that from the soul doth rise,
  Doth ask a drink divine;
  But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
  I would not change for thine.
  - The Forest--To Celia [Toasts]
  
  For he that once is good, is ever great.
  - The Forest--To Lady Aubigny [Greatness]
  
  Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself
  beyond expression.
  - The Masque of Hymen [Expression]