Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.