There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.