The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

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.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.