There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Men make the best friends.