Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

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

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.