Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.