... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.