So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.