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

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell.

If love and ambition should be in equal balance, and come to jostle with equal force, I make no doubt but that the last would win the prize.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

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