Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.