Men are nothing until they are excited.

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.

Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

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