Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.