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

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

I would rather be an expert on me than on Cicero

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy