Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

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

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this--the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.