Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

The Epicureans, according to whom animals had no creation, doe suppose that by mutation of one into another, they were first made; for they are the substantial part of the world; like as Anaxagoras and Euripides affirme in these tearmes: nothing dieth, but in changing as they doe one for another they show sundry formes.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Character is long-standing habit.

Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.