If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Opportunity makes a thief.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
By far the best proof is experience.
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.