The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.