Perverseness is your whole defence.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults as the having overcome them that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place where they grow, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung there.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.