My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to make use of what is another's than of our own.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.