In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.