"For a man's private fortune it is good to have an eye to his own affairs; for a commonwealth, to have an eye to its neighbours."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"A great kingdom is not to be made good by the multitude of people, but by the greatness of them that are in it."

"Age doth not rectify, but rather confirm and harden, good or bad."