If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.