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

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon.

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