A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting. - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.

Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

Hope is generally a wrong Guide, though it is very good Company by the way. It brusheth through Hedge and Ditch till it cometh to a great Leap, and there it is apt to fall and break its Bones.