Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.