True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Dine on little, and sup on less.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Let the worst come to the worst.

In the night all cats are gray.