Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.