If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.