It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.