A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.