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

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.