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

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

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