It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will never last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.

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

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

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.