Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.