But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.