Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported only by aptness of expression, tone and manner.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.