Character is inured habit.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.