It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

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.