The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

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?

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.