The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.

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

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.