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

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"The truth of a thing is in its being; the good of a thing is in its using."

"Silence is the virtue of fools."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."