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

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.