Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion.

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.