The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Among many reasons for being stupid it may be urged, it is being like other people, and living like one's neighbours, and indeed without it, it may be difficult to love some neighbours as oneself: now seeing the necessity of being dull, you won't, I hope, take it amiss that you find me so.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.