L'Estrange Quotes

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law, and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable.

We spend our days in deliberating and we end them without coming to any resolve.

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants but bad masters.