Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
All habits gather by unseen degrees.