People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

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

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.