Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.