There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.