Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.