John Tillotson

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.