The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.