Occupation: English Statesman Birth: November 11, 1633 Death: April 5, 1695
If politicians would think more they would act less..
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen..
The lower sort of men must be indulged the consolation of finding fault with those above them; without that, they would be so melancholy that it woul….
To the question, What shall we do to be saved in this World? there is no other answer but this, Look to your Moat..
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good..
Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies..