Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

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

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.