I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Time is the author of authors.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

The worst men often give the best advice.