Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,- In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.

I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Civility cost nothing.

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.