Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

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.