It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.