As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

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.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.