Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.