You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.
Henry BolingbrokeThe shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Henry BolingbrokePride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke