It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

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.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

What All The World Knows Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.