“The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“You are very harsh.' 'I have seen the world.”

“The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.”

“History is the study of the world's crime”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas”

“Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.”

“Things are often spoke and seldom meant.”

“"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument,"Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words;And in this change is my invention spent,Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.”

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.”

“Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.”

“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”

“Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.”