If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

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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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Truth never lost ground by enquiry.

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Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

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

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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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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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

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People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

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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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