A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.