He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.