Calamity is the test of integrity.
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
Good men must be affectionate men.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.