Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear..

My true love hath my heart, and I have his.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency..

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care..

To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious o….

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it..

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey..

Either I will find a way, or I will make one..

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you..

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them..

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets..

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the….

Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can s….

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens..

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened..

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring..

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self..

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust..

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown..

The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury..