Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. - Henry Taylor

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Such souls,
Whose sudden visitations daze the world,
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind
A voice that in the distance far away
Wakens the slumbering ages.

In a statesman’s transactions there are many things which cannot be communicated otherwise than by manner without inconvenient commitment or controversy; and that will be the most serviceable manner which can be expressive or inexpressive at pleasure, and be used as a dark lantern to his meanings.