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?
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
That power is in vain which is never in use.
Fear is prophetical of evil.
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.