Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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.