Jesters do often prove prophets.
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.