There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.