[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.