The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

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

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.

Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked, and lays us open to all the sly assaults of ill-intending men: it was a virtue when man was in his innocence; but since his fall, it abuses those that own it.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.