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.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.