And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.

[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.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.