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I find that the best goodness I have has some tincture of vice.

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid the blows of fortune.

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.