The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Only the fools are certain and assured.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.