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

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

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

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

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.