Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

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?