The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.