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.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

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.