The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

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.

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