A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.