I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

It is charming to totter into vogue.

I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.