Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule