We are all of us richer than we think we are.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor and goods, but also life itself to obtain it.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.