The place of justice is a hallowed place.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

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.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.