The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.