There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.