Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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.