Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.