Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.