Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without at all seeing the force of either the one or the other.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.