It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.