We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

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Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

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I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

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Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

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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.

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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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Oppression makes a poor country.

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Never despise what you don't understand.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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