For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

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.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.