Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.