Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.
Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.
I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.