All delays are dangerous in war.

We by art unteach what Nature taught.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.