Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.