An excuse is a lie guarded.
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.