So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.