Come, agree, the law's costly.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.