We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.