A great man is always willing to be little.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.