I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

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

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.