We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.
Contentment is better than divinations or visions.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.