The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.