One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
We disjoint the mind like the body.
Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.