The Ingredients Of Health And

A Noble Cause Doth Ease Much A Grievous Case.

Laughter Almost Ever Cometh Of Things Most Disproportioned To Ourselves And Nature: Delight Hath A Joy In It Either Permanent Or Present; Laughter Hath Only A Scornful Tickling.

In Shame There Is No Comfort But To Be Beyond All Bounds Of Shame.

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.

To Be Ambitious Of True Honor And Of The Real Glory And Perfection Of Our Nature Is The Very Principle And Incentive Of Virtue; But To Be Ambitious Of Titles, Place, Ceremonial Respects, And Civil Pageantry, Is As Vain And Little As The Things Are Which We Court