Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
— Philip Massinger
He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.
Let us love temperately, things violent last not.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
