Do not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.