Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.