Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

The secret counsels of princes are a troublesome burden to such as have only to execute them.

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.