the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.

Business before pleasure.

... true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

Farewell's a bitter word to say.