All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

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

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.