There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Others form man; I tell of him, and portray a particular one, very ill-formed, whom I should really make very different from whathe is if I had to fashion him over again. But now it is done.

A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.

Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.