Disappointment and feebleness imprint upon us a cowardly and valetudinarian virtue.

The most universal quality is diversity.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other