An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.