There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.