The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.