The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

May you live all the days of your life.

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

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

A lie is an excuse guarded

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.