Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.