People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

The ambassador [of Russia] and the grandees who accompanied him were so gorgeous that all London crowded to stare at them, and so filthy that nobody dared to t…

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.