Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

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

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