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.

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

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

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.