I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

He loves little who loves by rule.

God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.