Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

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.

Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight evidence of one's own

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.

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