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

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.