Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

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 I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.