Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Opportunity makes a thief.