All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

One may be humble out of pride.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.