The desire for riches is more sharpened by their use than by their need. Pleasing all: a mark that can never be aimed at or hit.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.

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

Ambition is not a vice of little people.