I would live to study not study to live.
Time is the author of authors.
Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Friends are thieves of time.
All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the lo...
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know e...
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.