Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.