All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

Those things are dearest to us that have cost us most.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.