To meditate an injury is to commit one.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride