T is as cheap sitting as standing.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.