Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

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

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.