Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

It needs courage to be afraid.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.