Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

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.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

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.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.