He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.
We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men’s mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men’s keeping.
God sends the cold according to the coat.
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.
Like a full-fed guest, depart to rest...
From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.
Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.