There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest