The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

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.

Praise is the daughter of present power.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.