An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.