It is equally pointless to weep because we won’t be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.
The conduct of our lives is the true mirror of our doctrine.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men’s mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men’s keeping.
God sends the cold according to the coat.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest...
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.