Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.