Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.