A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.