It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.