It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

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.

As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

Great is not great to the greater.