Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

The future is purchased by the present.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Ignorance cannot always be inferred from inaccuracy; knowledge is not always present.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.