We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
Every movement reveals us.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.