Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.