Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

- Samuel Daniel

The stars that have most glory have no rest.

- Samuel Daniel

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

- Samuel Daniel

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.

- Samuel Daniel

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

- Samuel Daniel

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

- Samuel Daniel

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

- Samuel Daniel

The wise are above books.

- Samuel Daniel

We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.

- Samuel Daniel