We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.