Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

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

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

When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.

If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.