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

Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.

'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

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.

... but the longest day hath its evening.