Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.