I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.