A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.
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 not good to wake a sleeping lion.
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?