Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Books are a languid pleasure.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?