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 popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

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.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other.

The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.