Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.