"He that cannot dissemble, cannot reign."

"It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."

"For the mind, when it is once possessed with an opinion, draws all things else to confirm and agree with it."

"He that hath no children, may be a said to be a kind of dead man."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."