There is no right government except good government.

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

Philosophers are as jealous as women; each wants a monopoly of praise.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.