Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

God made me and broke the mold.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.