Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?