It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

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.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.