No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

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.

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.