I seek no better warrant than my own, conscience.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

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!

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

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.