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.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

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

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

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.