As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.