I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.