Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Nothing is to be feared but fear.
Art is man added to Nature.
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.