O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.