Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

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.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.