With a bloody flux of oaths vows deep revenge.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

Sin is a basilisk whose eyes are full of venom. If the eye of thy soul see her first, it reflects her own poison and kills her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or seen too late, with her poison, she kills thee: since therefore thou canst not escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape thy observation.

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

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed.