Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.