Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

A man prepared has half fought the battle.