To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Reason can discover things only near,--sees nothing that's above her.

Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

It is the lot of man but once to die.

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.