When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

Cats like men are flatterers.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.