Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.

A good life is a main argument.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.