Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. |
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. |
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. |
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast |
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. |
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. |
Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it. |
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children |
Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent. |
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants |
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants |
Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. |
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. |
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. |
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely |