I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.