Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.