That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.