A good king is a public servant.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.