We have power over nothing except our will.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.