It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

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.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.