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

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

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

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.