Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness.

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.