Hope Is The Mother Of Faith.

Ambition Does Not See The Earth She Treads On: The Rock And The Herbage Are Of One Substance To Her.

The Writing Of The Wise Are The Only Riches Our Posterity Cannot Squander.

There Is A Desire Of Property In The Sanest And Best Men, Which Nature Seems To Have Implanted As Conservative Of Her Works, And Which Is Necessary To Encourage And Keep Alive The Arts.

It Has Been My Fortune To Love In General Those Men Most Who Have Thought Most Differently From Me, On Subjects Wherein Others Pardon No Discordance. I Think I Have No More Right To Be Angry With A Man, Whose Reason Has Followed Up A Process Different From What Mine Has, And Is Satisfied With The Result, Than With One Who Has Gone To Venice While I Am At Siena, And Who Writes To Me That He Likes The Place.

Every Great Writer Is A Writer Of History, Let Him Treat On Almost What Subject He May.