Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

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?