There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.