There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.