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

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

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.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Men always grow vicious before they become unbelievers.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.