The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.