Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

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

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.