Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.