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

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

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.