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

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.