Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.