To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Despair swallows up cowardice.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.