“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father”

“It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state”

“Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men”

“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it”

“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect”

“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”