“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.”
“Mystery is not profoundness.”
“We ask advice but we mean approbation.”
“Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.”
“Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.”
“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”
“Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.”
“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”
“Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”
“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
“Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.”
“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.”
“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.”
“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength”
“To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.”
“It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.”
“When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.”
“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”
“No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
“Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.”
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.”
“Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.”
“Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.”
“To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.”