Vice is but a nurse of agonies.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

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

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.