Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.
Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.