Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

No man becomes bad all at once.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.