Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

Progress equals happiness.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.