Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

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.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!