It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

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

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.