If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.