The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason.

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.