Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Truth allows no choice.
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.