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.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

The first mark of valor is defence.

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.