The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.