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.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

... but the longest day hath its evening.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

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

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.