When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.