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.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

Knowledge is power.