What excellent fools religion makes of men.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.