Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

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

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.