A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.

War should neither be feared nor provoked.

Truth comes out in wine.

The happier the moment the shorter.