There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Languages are the keys of science.

Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.