Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.