The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.