I never knew any man cured of inattention.

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

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.