It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

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

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

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.