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

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

My mind's my kingdom.