What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

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.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.