If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.