There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.