There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

Truth is a naked and open daylight

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

By indignities men come to dignities.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.