Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

It is a stupid presumption to go about despising and condemning as false anything that seems to us improbable; this is a common fault in those who think they have more intelligence than the crowd.

Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.