A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

The only security is courage.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.