Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.