For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.

Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Break free from the contract of employment

Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin.

Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.