Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
Bread is the staff of life.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.