Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

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.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.