Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
The happier time, the quicker it passes
Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things.
There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.
It is better to excel in any single art than to arrive only at mediocrity in several, so moderate skill in several is to be preferred where one cannot attain to perfection in any.
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.