He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.