It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.