Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

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.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

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

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