He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest