Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.