All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.