"Ignorance of causes makes men feareful of any power invisible."

"As if it were not enough to have been once in a war, but must also be perpetually in a posture of war."

"For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors: and therefore the just value is that which they are contented to give."

"For it is not the bare receiving of a man's message, that makes him an ambassador, but the accepting of his person."