It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

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