Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.