When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

Truth is a naked and open daylight