It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.