There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.