Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.