There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!