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

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.