Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.