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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For should we see how we are used and would not acquiesce, what would become of us?

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?