Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Many a truth is told in jest.
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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.