The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.