Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.