I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid.

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.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.