To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.