The public must and will be served.
Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.