There is no royal road or ready way to virtue.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or beggarly conquest of a distinction.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

Think before you act; think twice before you speak.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.