A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives
In charity there is no excess.
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.