Perverseness is your whole defence.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.