The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

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.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.