Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.