Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

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

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.