Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

A lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat