What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.