Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Don't set your wit against a child.