“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.” MenMindMayCharacterDesirePassionFoundVirtueGreaterColorAmbitionVicesSuperiorsVirtuousSuperiorityViciousScarceSatiristMoralist Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.” MenMayTwoEqualAmbitionRageMerit Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.” MayFlowerTasteBeesExquisiteDisregardQuintessence Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
