Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

There is nothing so great that I fear to do it for my friend; nothing so small that I will disdain to do it for him.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.