After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.