"For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."

"For it is not the bare words, but the scope of the speaker, that giveth the true interpretation of a law."

"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."

"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

"The imagination is nothing but decaying sense."