Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

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

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.