All bravery stands upon comparisons.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.