You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

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.

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

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.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking Indeed is too mellow for me.