O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.