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

It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.