When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

There is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.

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