The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.