Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.