Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.