Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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.

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

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

Don't stumble over something behind you.