When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.