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

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

States are great engines moving slowly.