Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Our reliance on the physician is a kind of despair of ourselves.

Youth is everywhere in place.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.