Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

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

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.