Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

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

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.