Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.