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

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