The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

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

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Great is not great to the greater.

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.