"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."
"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."