Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands