To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?