Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.