Theatre: poor stepsister of the arts.

A true knight us fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

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

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

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 habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life.