We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

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

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.