“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.”

Don’t set your wit against a child.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Books, the children of the brain.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

When I stopped caring about every other content creator, I became the best one.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The happiness of life lies within yourself. As long as you feel you are content, you are happy.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.