The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.