If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.