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.

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Nothing has a letter effect upon children than praise.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.