I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.