There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.