There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.
Knavery is the best defense against a knave.
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.