Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.