Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die.

Let valour end my life!

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to be somebody.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.