Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

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.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.