We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again, take in to send out again, and the greatest Part of their vast Commerce consists in being supply'd from All Parts of the World, that they may supply All th World Again.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

Law is but a heathen word for power.