A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.