There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.