The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.