Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.