The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.