Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.