Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

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.