I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.