There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass?
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.