A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was