Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: "Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think," and the like.