If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

In charity there is no excess.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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.

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