We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.