Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.