It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.