If music be the food of love, play on.

Writing gave me the world.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.