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 shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

Praise thyself never.