Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation.

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.