A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?