I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

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.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.