It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.