Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.