God's first creature, which was light.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.