The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Neither blame or praise yourself.