He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.