Let the people be to you one, and be you one to the whole people.

'Tis an unworthy ambition to think to derive glory from a man's sloth and privacy: you are to do like the beasts of chase, who efface the track at the entrance into their den.

You are no more to concern yourself how the world talks of you, but how you are to talk to yourself.

Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.

A man may miscarry alone as well as in company.