We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.