The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.
A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.