"Paradoxically, Bacon holds that the internally colonized may be treated with greater severity, as suppressed rebels, than the externally colonized, who are more fitly a subject of the ius gentium."

"The human understanding from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."

"It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."

"For as in a looking-glass, when the face is once gone, it is gone for ever; so in memory, when a thing is once forgotten, it is gone for ever."

"The less people think, the more they talk."