The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.