The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
Believe things, rather than man.
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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.
A benefactor is a representative of God.