Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.