There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of honor and renown, so low and mendicant; that it makes us beg it of all sorts of people.