They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.