I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

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.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.