Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions.