"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest, and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

No clap of thunder in a fair frosty day could astonish the world more than [England's] declaration of war against Holland in 1672.