What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.