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

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?

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