Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.