There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Flattery is a base coin which is current only through our vanity.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.