For the uttering sweetly and properly the conceit of the mind, English hath it equally with any other tongue in the world.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

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 violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.