If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.