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.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

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