"Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."

"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."

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

"And it is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea."

"The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men."