A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

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

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

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.