He is great enough that is his own master.

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Tranquillity consisteth in a steadiness of the mind; and how can that vessel that is beaten upon by contrary waves and winds, and tottereth to either part, be said to keep a steady course? Resolution is the only mother of security.

We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.