I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.