I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base