It is the rule of rules, and the general law of all laws, that every person should observe those of the place where he is.

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

God sends the cold according to the coat.