The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.