No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

I see myself as a traveller.