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

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!

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.

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

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

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.