I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.