Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

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

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.