All things began in Order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again, according to the Ordainer of Order, and the mystical mathematicks of the City of Heaven.

Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but the virtue of taciturnity.

Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.