I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.