The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

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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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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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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

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The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

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Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

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