He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.