It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

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.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door