Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The worst men often give the best advice.

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

States are great engines moving slowly.

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.