The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.
There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.
Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.