Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.