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.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

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

How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

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

Vice is but a nurse of agonies.