"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."

"Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."