He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

Few men have been admired of their familiars.