What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.