Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.