The more you say, the less they remember.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Custom alone regulates morals.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.