And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.

Surely a gentle sister is the second best gift to a man; and it is first in point of occurrence; for the wife comes after.

Niggards are oftentimes neat.

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.