If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

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

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.