True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

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

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

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

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.