To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.