All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.