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But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

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

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.

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