If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

We neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other.

We have no better materials to compound the priesthood of, than the mass of mankind, which corrupted as it is, those who receive orders must have some vices to leave behind them when they enter into the Church, and if a few do still adhere, it is no wonder, but rather a great one that they are no worse. Therefore.

Don't set your wit against a child.

The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle which was a kind of hollow vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a cable to the child's waist: but all in vain; so that she was forced to apply the last remedy by giving it suck.