A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

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

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.