"For the thereof, I cannot but say, that I found myself in a condition, which in truth I am not able to express, but by a kind of similitude. I was a man of a broken fortune, and of a broken health, an…"

"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight."

"The greatest objection to a monarch cannot be made without a paradox; for it is that he is too great to be good."

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

"It is as natural to die as to be born."