My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.