I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.