It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -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.

Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself