Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Time is the greatest innovator.