O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.