How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance!

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.

Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

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

Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

I willingly confess that it likes me better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.