"It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are…"

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."

"The virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical …"

"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."

"Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed."

"Dissimulations is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when…"

"Certainly the ablest men that ever were, have had all an openness, and frankness, of dealing; and a name of certainty…"

"In few words, mysteries are due to secrecy. Besides (to say truth) nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; an…"

"As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal. For he that talketh what he knoweth, …"

"It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the se…"