We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.