No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

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!

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

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.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.