A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Reason and truth will prevail at last

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.