If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?