The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still more of my unfinished garden.

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