Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

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.

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