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.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

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

Thinking nurseth thinking.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.