We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.

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.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.