Perverseness is your whole defence.
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.