The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.
Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.
We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.