The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

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?

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.