William Shakespeare wasn’t the only one writing interesting things in the Elizabethan Era, back when codpieces and lace decoration were all the rage for grown men. Poet and clergyman George Herbert, while not as flowery as Shakespeare, also had some poetic things to say, especially this mighty metaphor.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert

George appears to have understood that confidence is key and that brevity is the soul of wit, perhaps even better than the Bard of Avon himself.