Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.