It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.