Men are vile inconstant toads.

Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.

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

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

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

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.

It has all been most interesting.