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

I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

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.