All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.