I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.