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.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

I quote others in order to better express myself.