Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.