Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

May God never abandon me.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.