For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know