Something of the severe hath always been appertaining to order and to grace; and the beauty that is not too liberal is sought the most ardently, and loved the longest.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.