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.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

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.