Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same freedom as their own houses; and I would do it without a homily or graciousness or favor, for tyranny itself is to me a word less odious than toleration.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

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