Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.