The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.
Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.