Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Every animal loves itself.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.