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.

She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

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

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.