Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

God defend me from myself.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!