Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!