The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.