Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.