The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.
Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.
Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.
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.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.