There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
Few men have been admired of their familiars.
Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.