Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.