Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.