The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore, finds himself inclined to envy another, should remember that he knows not the real condition which he desires to obtain, but is certain that by indulging a vicious passion, he must lessen that happiness which he thinks already too sparingly bestowed.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.