A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
Idle hands are the devil's playthings.
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.