The people rate strength before everything.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.