Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.