Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

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

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.