"For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man."

"Ambition is like a choler, which makes an ill digestion, but a good appetite."

"I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others; for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation."

"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self."

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