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

God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

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.