War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

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All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.

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