A princely mind will undo a private family.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.