Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]