I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.