Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

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

It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other men’s flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together.

It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for, once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.

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.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.