The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything, to proclaim its defects, because they are in all things to be found, how beautiful or how much to be coveted soever.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.