"This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven"

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows"

"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"

"Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place"

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act"

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven"

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell"