Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.