[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

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

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.