Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.