But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

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.

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

My art and profession is to live.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.