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

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

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I have it.