But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.