Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautifu...l and prosperous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in si...ngularity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God hath prepared ... a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for thos...e who have not defiled themselves with women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasur...es: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of ...those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »