O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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