I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.