To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.