The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.