Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.