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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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

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Silence is Wisdom where Speaking is Folly.

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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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Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

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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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Let us see what love can do.

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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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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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