The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.