If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Time is like a ship which never anchors; while I am on board, I had better do those things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.