Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Minds that are stupid and incapable of science are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena; minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.