What a man hates, he takes seriously.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.