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.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

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.

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.