A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case..

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant pa….

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstand….

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all….

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason..

Vice is but a nurse of agonies..

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom..

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves..

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking..

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it..

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show..

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place..

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter ha….

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon..

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way..

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the histor….

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker..

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing..

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world..

High-erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy..

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage..