Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

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

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.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.