It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.