There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts