We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.