What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.

Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.