Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.