War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.