[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.