It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

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.

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.