“Of all our parts, the eyes express / The sweetest kind of bashfulness.”

— Robert Herrick, Hesperides, 1648, "Bashfulness"

About Robert Herrick

1591 – 1674

English poet and cleric, author of "Hesperides".

“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

“Love is a circle that doth restless move / In the same sweet eternity of love.”

“Wealth cannot make a life, but love.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”