Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.