It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.