Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

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.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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