None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

Law never made men a whit more just.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.